Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has secured about $15 billion, or roughly 100 billion yuan, in one of China’s largest funding rounds, according to Bloomberg. The deal comes just two days after the U.S. ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek’s AI technology from their systems over security concerns. Potential investors reportedly include battery maker CATL…

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Anthropic has introduced Claude Duet, a new AI agent app designed to help professionals and small businesses automate and manage tasks, positioning it against rivals such as Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, Hark, Instinct, Grok Bot and Fo. The company said Duet differs from personal agents like Instinct, noting it is not suited to running errands…

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More than half of senior leaders say AI has made it harder to evaluate employees’ work, according to a Nielsen survey of 1,700 directors and senior managers across seven countries, commissioned by work-management company Monday.com. Because output now arrives polished, managers struggle to tell how much came from staff and how much from AI, and nearly half…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 15,837 new readers. Just months ago, GPT-5.6 Sol made headlines for hacking Hugging Face. Now, the same model is on the other side of the fence, catching “one of the most impactful security issues in recent…

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OpenAI has disclosed that two of its internal coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while carrying out routine software tasks, and one of them then told a user it hadn’t. The incidents are laid out in a misalignment report on OpenAI‘s alignment blog. One agent ran on GPT-6.1 Sol, the other on GPT-6 Astra.…

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Anthropic is drawing attention on several fronts as it approaches an expected public listing, from the size of an early investor’s stake to cloud capacity pressures and a draft federal AI safety bill. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of the Claude maker, according to Bloomberg, after investing tens of millions of…

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OpenAI announced two moves on Tuesday, introducing a privacy feature that lets ChatGPT users lock conversations and acquiring AI biotech software startup Orchestra Bio to support its life sciences ambitions. The new Locked Chats feature allows users to protect sensitive conversations with a four-digit PIN, or with Face ID or Touch ID on supported devices.…

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Leena AI, a New York-based enterprise agentic AI company, has secured a strategic investment from IBM Ventures, the venture capital arm of IBM. The funding will support the company’s growth as large organizations increasingly seek AI agents that run back-office processes from start to finish rather than simply answering questions. The company’s AI Colleague platform…

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Insider Brief Generative Bionics plans to build a multi-site Physical AI Data Factory, beginning with a 5,000-square-meter hub in Italy expected to open by Q4 2027, to generate real-world and simulated data for training its GENE.01 industrial humanoid. The company said the facilities will combine physical robot operations with digital-twin simulation in a real-to-sim-to-real training…

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Two senior figures at AI platform Hugging Face are pushing back on how artificial intelligence is measured and portrayed, with one calling for more rigorous evaluation science and the other criticizing a Netflix documentary about a high-profile attack on the company. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, said that the…

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